Myrmica excelsa

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Myrmica excelsa Kupyanskaya, 1990 valid

Myrmica excelsa Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 115, figs. 16, 19, 20 (w.q.m.) RUSSIA (Primorsky Region). Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Russia: Primorsky Krai, Barabash-Levada, 9.v.1972 (A.N. Kupyanskaya). Primary type depository: ZMUM. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 301 paratype workers, 18 paratype queens, 8 paratype males. Secondary type localities: 36 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 94 paratype workers, 5 paratype queens, 8 paratype males Kedrovaya Pad’, 14.ix.1973, 30.viii.1974, 9.ix.1974, 16.vi.1975, 9.vii.1979 (A.N. Kupyanskaya), 32 paratype workers Anisimovka, 20.viii.1979 (A.N. Kupyanskaya), 23 paratype workers Evseevka, 22, 23.vi.1978 (A.N. Kupyanskaya), 6 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen Lazovsky Natural Reserve, 22.ix.1974 (A.N. Kupyanskaya), 20 paratype workers Komissarovka 7.v.1972 (A.N. Kupyanskaya), 90 paratype workers Rudnaya Pristan’, 7.ix.1972 (Storozheva), 12 paratype queens Chandolaz Range, 26.ix.1974 (Storozheva). Secondary type depositories: BPIV, SIZK, ZMUM.

Status as species: Radchenko, 1994d: 144 (in key); Radchenko, 1994i: 90; Bolton, 1995b: 279; Radchenko, 2005b: 140; Radchenko et al., 2008: 783; Yamane, 2008: 29; Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 131; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 47; Chen et al., 2016: 112 (in key).
Senior synonym of Myrmica cadusa: Radchenko, 2005b: 140; Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 131.
Senior synonym of Myrmica sinica: Radchenko et al., 2008: 783; Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 131; Chen et al., 2016: 89.

Junior synonyms

Myrmica cadusa Kim et al., 1997
Myrmica sinica Wu & Wang, 1995

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Chen, Z.; Zhou, S.; Huang, J. 2016. Seven species new to science and one newly recorded species of the ant genus Myrmica Latreille, 1804 from China, with proposal of a new synonym (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 551:85-128. 10.3897/zookeys.551.6005 PDF
Guénard, B.; Dunn, R. R. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3358:1-77. PDF
Kupyanskaya, A. N. 1990a. Ants of the Far Eastern USSR. [In Russian.]. Vladivostok: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 258 pp.
Radchenko, A. 2005b. Monographic revision of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of North Korea. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 55:127-221. PDF
Radchenko, A. G. 1994d. Identification table for ants of the genus Myrmica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from central and eastern Palearctic. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 73(7-8):130-145. PDF
Radchenko, A. G. 1994i. Survey of the species of the lobicornis group of the genus Myrmica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from central and eastern Palearctic. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 73(11):81-92. PDF
Radchenko, A. G.; Elmes, G. W. 2010. Myrmica ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Old World. Fauna Mundi 3. Warsaw: Natura Optima Dux Foundation, 790 pp. PDF
Radchenko, A. G.; Zhou, S.; Elmes, G. W.; Rigato, F. 2008. Seven new Myrmica species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from China. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 58:767-784. PDF
Yamane, S. 2008. On Myrmica excelsa from Japan. [In Japanese.]. A R I 31:29-31.

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